DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. GeoSpock

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. GeoSpock

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#175	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org

geospock.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

GeoSpock

Initial release

1984

2012

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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